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Personalities Beyond Fists and Faces
Personalities Beyond Fists and Faces Beyond the classic poses of boxers with fists at the ready, Holger Keifel found a spirit that lingered beyond the ring. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/personalities-beyond-fists-and-faces/ Holger Keifel spent eight years as a shadow in the court of boxing royalty, making portraits of fighters, trainers and promoters in the corners of…
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The West Reflecting on the East
Link: The West Reflecting on the East | PDN Photo of the Day “My work is more questions than answers. It’s clearly political; I’m not trying to dodge that. I approach [a subject] from as many angles as I can, so it seems ambiguous, and people can enter into a dialogue with it,” says Greer…
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Mei Xian Qiu: Qilin
Mei Xian Qiu: Qilin Mei Xian Qiu is a Los Angeles based artist who creates staged tableaux that reflect Cultural Revolution Propaganda imagery. She currently has an exhibition at the Kopeikin Gallery ending on April 19th. “In the photographs, hidden political dangers are su via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2014/04/mei-xian-qiu-let-thousand-flowers-bloom/ Mei Xian Qiu is a Los Angeles based…
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Photo of the Day: Best of March
Link: Photo of the Day: Best of March | PROOF When people ask me what makes a Photo of the Day—a curated look at photography around National Geographic—my answer is simple: I have to want to spend time with the picture, and whether full of complex detail or exquisitely simple, it has to stand on…
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Dominic Nahr and Tomás Munita: A Photographic Perspective on Fukushima
Link: Dominic Nahr and Tomás Munita: A Photographic Perspective on Fukushima « The Leica Camera Following an earthquake in March 2011, disaster struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power in Japan plant forcing people to leave their homes when the area was declared an exclusion zone. Photographers Dominic Nahr (DN) and Tomás Munita (TM) traveled to…
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PJL: April 2014 (Part 1)
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/07/pjl-april-2014-part-1/
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Saul Leiter in Black and White
Saul Leiter in Black and White via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/saul-leiter-in-black-and-white.html#slide_ss_0=1 An undervalued photographer for most of his life, Leiter quietly amassed a body of work that has only recently begun receiving the credit it deserves
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Portraits of Reconciliation
Portraits of Reconciliation 20 years after the genocide in Rwanda, these perpetrators and survivors are standing for forgiveness. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Last month, the photographer Pieter Hugo went to southern Rwanda, two decades after nearly a million people were killed during the country’s genocide, and captured a series of unlikely, almost unthinkable tableaus
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“Bikers” by Yan Morvan
Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/ “I think the very first photo I took was in 1967 at the Monaco Grand Prix. I was 13 and photographed race cars with my dad. That was the year that Lorenzo Bandini crashed and burned, and I took photos of it with my Kodak camera”
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#LBFF: Political Satire and Social Media with Mark Peterson
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/04/lbff-mark-peterson-on-the-power-of-social-media-and-political-satire/#1 we spoke to Redux photographer Mark Peterson, whose candid and at times outrageous political photos have appeared on the Instagram feeds of MSNBC and GQ, and in print in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Fortune and TIME.
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The Bizarre World of Modern-Day Agriculture Photographed by Henrik Spohler
The Bizarre World of Modern-Day Agriculture Photographed by Henrik Spohler – Feature Shoot Hamburg-based Henrik Spohler’s The Third Day, published by Hatje Cantz, examines the relationship humans have with plant life. Spohler photographed worldwide sites of plant cultivation, showing fruits, vegetables, ornamental trees, seed laboratories, gree via Feature Shoot: http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/04/henrik-spohler-tk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=henrik-spohler-tk#!DtS75 Hamburg-based photographer Henrik Spohler’s The…
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Emerging Photographer: Sara Cwynar at Foxy Production
Sara Cwynar at Foxy Production Cwynar, who has expanded her series “Flat Death,” will exhibit the project in a solo show that opens on April 5th. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/photographer-sara-cwynar-at-foxy-production.html
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To See the World: Marc Riboud’s Eye of the Traveler
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/06/to-see-the-world-marc-ribouds-eye-of-the-traveler/#1 “‘Experience has taught me that many great photographers have incredible gems in their archive, which perhaps they’ve been too close to and can’t quite see the brilliance of,’ says Fetterman”
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Discussing Honesty in Imagery
Link: Discussing Honesty in Imagery – NYTimes.com “The American Society of Media Photographers recently discovered the transcript of an interview of W. Eugene Smith, conducted by the great portraitist Philippe Halsmann and the society’s first president”
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The Green Book Project by Jehad Nga
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/09/27/the-green-book-project-by-jehad-nga/#1 Following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime last year, photographer Jehad Nga set out to explore the former dictator’s political and military philosophies within the framework of an underlying and contrasting Libyan culture. Here, Nga he writes for LightBox about his…
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Switzerland: Biel festival of Photography
Link: Switzerland: Biel festival of Photography | Le Journal de la Photographie Hélène Joye-Cagnard’s and Catherine Kohler’s selection welcomes photographers from 10 countries – among them Iran, the US, China, Spain and Switzerland – and congregates the multiple facets of a red-hot topic into a coherent image.
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The Commodification of Photography – Maybe It Is the Camera…
The Commodification of Photography – Maybe It Is the Camera… – PhotoShelter Blog I observed a woman taking a photo with her iPhone today while walking down the street. But this wasn’t some sort of casual snap. She was backing up. Really backing up. Framing the scene even though she was a good 30 meters…
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Curator Susan Bright On Motherhood and Photography
Link: Curator Susan Bright On Motherhood and Photography | Feature Shoot Susan Bright is a photography curator currently based in New York. She has become a prominent figurehead in her contribution to photography by showcasing artists who are pushing the boundaries of the medium. In doing so she highlights exciting movements within photography and keeps the…
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Mark Leong’s Photos From Hong Kong
In Post-Colonial Hong Kong, Finding Whimsy and Menace Mark Leong’s cinematic photos reveal an uneasy relationship between old and new, order and chaos in Hong Kong, 15 years after its handover from Britain. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/in-post-colonial-hong-kong-finding-whimsy-and-menace/ During the months he spent trekking through this city for National Geographic magazine, Mark Leong was on a…